The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1887-11-25
NEWS AND OTHER AUrIAGs.


from barge that suns to the button Q! the
Hudson river.
Two prisoners In tire Jail ct Locspcrt
y. \, carried on d conversation through the
bars. which drIfted on to matrimonial al
fairs. aud next mornine, on being released,
they we're married. She had been arrested
:or vagraucY and he for drunkenness.
Fewer than 4 coo stars are visible to the
naked eye, but when tie heavens are viewed
through ateiescope the number seen becomes
countless. Iiersch-l sstImaie6 when he
surveyed The Milky Way that fully 25s. 600
s'ars appeared before hira IN Iess than one
hour.
! -O1s OF the voters az ths recent election
In HsVerhil. Mass, was Captain Nicholas
Costello. who Is l04 years Of GCP. lie has
always voted the Democratic TICK { since he
was naiuraIized, 80 Ears ago. and Is be-
leved 10 be the oldest DemocrA. ia Massa-
chusetts.
Two children while returning from near
High Prairie, Minn., last Friday week, we're
attacked by wolves. and before assistar CO
Z could reach them they were deyoured. The
wolves attacked some men IN the same vi.
entity. and it was only after long fight that
they escaped.
A Brooklyn man offered to sweep the
sidewalks II a certain candidate WAS not
elected bis fayorite wac defeated, snd
the oiheT evening The man kept bis word,
sweeping both sides of tho street for space
of whole squarH' "hiie ? brass band play
/ ed and a large crowd cheered.
! DR.. 4. Aieye-, of Leipsic, hiss succeeded
! in reaching the summit OF the KlOopeak,
/ in AfrcG-s feat which several travellers
( have previously attempted without success.
/ It took him ak days 10 MAKE the ascent
/ The mountain is an extinct volcano Dr..
| Meyer estimates that il is 10 600 Ieet high.
-On last Sunday week. while two Nor
| mon elders were conducting q meeting near
! Birmingham, Ala. 20 armed men appeared.
] dEaGEed the Moimous from the pulpit, :uok
! :bem Into the wCod- ard threatened Ia haug
/ them. They We're finally role ssed upon tie
/ condition that they would leave the county
/ az once, which they did.
Sam Johns. a Leota, Miss. negro, be
came too free With the wood plies OF bis
! neignbors short time ago sLd one Of Uhsm
/ loaded few sticks for bear They found
their way to Sans wood box iu due time,
and last week one o them blew his stove to
pieces. sam was in tie rom al ths time.
/ and narrowly escaped injury.
Although naarly everyone owns an um-
! bEelia, there are hut Few manufacturers in
ihiS Country and th4 maj prity OF these are
I IN Ne" York and PhliadrlphIa. Tn-re are
/ about fifteen factories 10 New Tpk aud
nearly to- ssm- number in Pulladerpiiia.
One OF those III NV York IS said to turn
cat 10, ooo pieces umbrellas and parasulz)
daily.
Mrs. Frank Seac0y. a poor woman II
Nevada village, had her well Cleaned anI
her chickens scratched over the grave! and
dirt that came ont. a few days afterward
She killed one az them. aud IN its crop was
piece OF 20 q as big as Z bean. Mrs Sea-
COY At once located mjoa In heI we'll, aud
asks big price for her hitherto modest
property.
"A correspondent who recently visited
Bel!-v;Ile. In, writes that 1t s seemed +, him
aS II ne were in a city OF Germany Out If
a population of 10 600 he did not see dozsu
Americans. and The manners AMI customs of
The people were those OF ths fAtaerland
Beer is almost exclusively the beverage OF
the to"n. and -ven the dogs locked as II
they bad been brought up on it,
-Matihew Bird II years Old, died at hi.
home, No. I1+I Norwood STREET, Phiiudri-
PHO, last week, tho victim OF ciparet.-
SIN king For some time pas. he had beer
an inyrrrr-te user OF tn seductive we'd
and bad often complained Of severe head
ach.s- Recently told his aunt that h,
mai slight fan rom pair az stills. auC
tuen Ia had sn sttG1k of dizziness. IIl
f death Is attributed Ia the combined eG ct
OF the cigarette smoking and the fall Tn,
J Coroner will investigate The case.
;; Thirty monkeys in a Y W Y,uk museum
have performance Of their own by HhtcI
the truth of our old ceocraphers Dnd new
ones, too. IS proven. Two imitation tgeg
, are PLACID upon Opposite sides of the stag,
and b-tween th-m f D3s a rushing river
} Thirty MONKEYS are on ona tree and ona on
, the other The thirty string themselyp
: together like The Inks of g chain and tTRI
: they get them-eIYes swinging out oyer tbs
+ RIVER. They keep swinging until the mon
key at the lower end catches the tail Of tht
monkey on the other tree. Thus they form
a bridge of monkeys ovrt tie river. Just a
the old geosIa pliers used TO illustrate it,
The first Chinese lawyer eyer admftfa,
t. practice in this country. and probably IT
4, ~
2 to the bar at the Court House Ia Nv YoiI
the other day. Hong Yen Chang Is the new
counselor and attOrney-at-Iaw He ha
. just passed a satisfactory examination be.
fore The General Term OF the Suprem,
Court. Lawyer Chang is about &c years old
and has grown To manhood in New York
= lie WAS graduated from the Columbia Law
School IN 1886 and oY a special l@gisIativ,
: enhctmPnt last spring the General Tarm wa.
directed to waive his race disabilities an,
admit him 70 practice an his passing a salts
factory examination He will live IN New
; hoik and make a speciality OF bis country
mems interests.
r. w. Cameron & Co. OF NV York
: have heen auihorrzrd by the Government n
New 'uth Wales. of which they are tn
/ agents, Ia Offar in hehelfuf that Goyarnmpn
, a reward Of Sl25 600 for any method or pro
cess CT extern inaiing the rabbits. whicl
have hecore pest throughout AustraI IiI
and Nv Z-aIand. In the year 1864 a f-g
English rabbits we're intr"Guced into N-s
, Z-aIand as family pets aid were fnalI,
placsd In p small warren in the B.tsnTcs
, Garden at Dunedin. In some unacroant
able way these rabbits have multiplied I,
) numbers 10 such an extent as TO b-cnm
= public nui-snces. and have alsn increased !,
Z s'zA snd destroy not only the vegetables In
g even the grass TO such an extpnt that th
. sheep pastuTage is seriously eff-ctpd Tn
great sZe Of the reward now offered !